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Definition of lingo in English: lingonounPlural lingoes, Plural lingos ˈlɪŋɡəʊˈlɪŋɡoʊ humorous, informal 1A foreign language or local dialect. it doesn't matter if you can't speak the lingo Example sentencesExamples - Felicity of language is a strong point, and he switches with ease from English into the local lingo.
- Learn the lingo with an evening class in a foreign language.
- Scientists searching for patterns within this cacophony of lingoes are convinced that languages hold pivotal clues to questions about human history that other areas of study have been unable to answer.
- Just wave the camera and smile if you can't speak the local lingo.
- She can speak the lingo and read signs and menus.
Synonyms speech, writing, communication, verbal expression, verbalization, vocalization, conversation, speaking, talking, words, utterance, vocabulary, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, talk, discourse, interchange, intercourse, interaction language, tongue, speech, parlance, vocabulary, mother tongue, native tongue - 1.1 The vocabulary or jargon of a particular subject or group of people.
Example sentencesExamples - Oh, sure, the spiritual world must necessarily involve some new or unusual vocabulary / lingo.
- The novelist Herman Melville described the underworld vocabulary as ‘the foulest of all human lingoes, that dialect of sin and death, known as the Cant language, or the Flash.’
- In computer lingo, this is referred to as a Centralized Network Topology.
- While we're on the subject of units, it's important to understand that construction measurement has a language and lingo all its own.
- Well, one might say that such a lingo is spoken only by teenagers and young adults, but is it really so?
- In the technical lingo, connecting programs in this way is often called systems integration.
- I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.
- He should bounce back, as we say in the medical lingo, within a few days, I think.
- Each subject has its own lingo, meaning that, where appropriate, he lays his particular accent on thicker.
- He preferred not to trust someone ahead of himself, so he even learned the medical lingo.
Synonyms jargon, terminology, idiom, slang, argot, cant
Origin Mid 17th century: probably via Portuguese lingoa from Latin lingua 'tongue'. language from Middle English: The word language is from Old French langage, based on Latin lingua ‘tongue’, which is also found in linguist (late 16th century), and goes back to an Indo-European root shared with lick (Old English). The expression to lick someone into shape comes from the old tradition that bear cubs were born a formless mass, and had literally to be licked into shape by their mothers. Lingo (mid 17th century) is probably from the Portuguese form of lingua.
Rhymes bingo, dingo, Domingo, flamingo, gringo, jingo Definition of lingo in US English: lingonounˈliNGɡōˈlɪŋɡoʊ humorous, informal 1A foreign language or local dialect. they were unable to speak a word of the local lingo Example sentencesExamples - Scientists searching for patterns within this cacophony of lingoes are convinced that languages hold pivotal clues to questions about human history that other areas of study have been unable to answer.
- Just wave the camera and smile if you can't speak the local lingo.
- She can speak the lingo and read signs and menus.
- Felicity of language is a strong point, and he switches with ease from English into the local lingo.
- Learn the lingo with an evening class in a foreign language.
Synonyms speech, writing, communication, verbal expression, verbalization, vocalization, conversation, speaking, talking, words, utterance, vocabulary, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation, talk, discourse, interchange, intercourse, interaction language, tongue, speech, parlance, vocabulary, mother tongue, native tongue - 1.1 The vocabulary or jargon of a particular subject or group of people.
fat, known in medical lingo as adipose tissue Example sentencesExamples - Well, one might say that such a lingo is spoken only by teenagers and young adults, but is it really so?
- I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.
- He preferred not to trust someone ahead of himself, so he even learned the medical lingo.
- In computer lingo, this is referred to as a Centralized Network Topology.
- Oh, sure, the spiritual world must necessarily involve some new or unusual vocabulary / lingo.
- The novelist Herman Melville described the underworld vocabulary as ‘the foulest of all human lingoes, that dialect of sin and death, known as the Cant language, or the Flash.’
- He should bounce back, as we say in the medical lingo, within a few days, I think.
- While we're on the subject of units, it's important to understand that construction measurement has a language and lingo all its own.
- Each subject has its own lingo, meaning that, where appropriate, he lays his particular accent on thicker.
- In the technical lingo, connecting programs in this way is often called systems integration.
Synonyms jargon, terminology, idiom, slang, argot, cant
Origin Mid 17th century: probably via Portuguese lingoa from Latin lingua ‘tongue’. |